Du temps acheté. La crise sans cesse ajournée du capitalisme démocratique

Conference with Key Speaker Wolfgang Streeck, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well as the Academia Europaea.

 

Followed by a round table with:
– Jenny Andersson, Historian (Sciences Po – Centre d’études européennes / CNRS)
– Bruno Amable, Economic Scientist (Université Paris 1 et CEPREMAP)
– Emiliano Grossman, Political Scientist (Sciences Po – Centre d’études européennes)

 

Book panel – “Du temps acheté: La crise sans cesse ajournée du capitalisme démocratique“

“Reminds one of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”
Jurgen Habermas

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. He analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, as expressed in inflation, public debt, and rising private indebtedness. Streeck traces the transformation of the tax state into a debt state, and from there into the consolidation state of today. At the centre of the analysis is the changing relationship between capitalism and democracy, in Europe and elsewhere, and the advancing immunization of the former against the latter.

Read more about the book “Du temps acheté” here.